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Revision as of 10:25, 2 December 2012
Fedora®
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Fedora 17
- Release:
- Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
- Common Bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
- Fedora 17 Installation Guide - Very complete
- Anaconda options
- Anaconda boot options modified for Fedora 17
- Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
- "We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."
Sugar Learning Environment
- packaged in Fedora
- From the Applications -> Add/Remove Software app, search for Sugar.
- Among all the packaged Activities select,
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The emulator for the Sugar Learning Environment sugar-emulator-0.96.2-1.fc17 |
- and any or all of the Activities.
- Sugar will be available in your Applications -> Education grid.
- Sugar will run in a Xephyr window (Sugar in a window) within the GNOME desktop environment. You will have full access to Sugar features, and may even run multiple instances. Networking bugs currently prevent collaboration with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood. Press <F1> to see the Sugar Neighborhood view.
- See emulator screen size adjustment.
Fedora Sugar on a Stick Spin
Sugar is pre-installed in a minimal Fedora Spin.
PowerPC
Sugar via the Sweets Distribution
- Advanced
Install with sweets
- A very advanced installation method also available for Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo.
- Installation
- Sweets Usage
- Sweets Packaging
Notes
Fedora GNOME 3 shell
- See GNOME 3 desktop.
Dracut
- http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/dracut-notes/dracut-notes.html
- "Dracut is like 98% shell scripts, so you’re gonna need to know some sh/bash to do anything with it."
UEFI Boot
- Lenovo info
Dynamic Firewall
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DynamicFirewall
- "This feature adds support for a dynamically managed firewall that is able to handle firewall changes without the need to rebuild the whole firewall. The firewall daemon manages the firewall and has a D-BUS interface to interact with clients or services, that request firewall changes."
CD boots EFI to MAC and into a PC
- no persistence when running from CD
Persistent boot USB
Anaconda (installer)
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_local_media
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates
Systemd
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems
- http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
- http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html
f17 Unity Desktop Port
- Note: Experimental
- Info: http://www.muktware.com/3961/unity-ported-fedora-using-opensuse-open-source-rocks-collaboration
- Repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Ayatana/Fedora_17/
Development
Fedora 18
- updated Nov 23 2012
- FOR TESTING ONLY
- These are test composes to find bugs
- DO NOT use to install on any important Computer Systems.
- anaconda NuUI installer is NEW and has bugs:
- A major feature of f18 is the development of newUI a new anaconda.
- There has been a significant delay in releasing Beta as bugs have been fixed.
Latest Downloads
- f18 Prerelease
- http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
- http://mirror.uoregon.edu/fedora/linux/releases/test/18-Beta/
- f18-Beta RC1 - These are all FOR TESTING ONLY
- http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-RC1/
- Anaconda Defaults to LVM format from 18.23
Sugar on a Stick f18 ʻŌhelo ʻai
- Working f18-SoaS-Nightly Composes
f18-SoaS-Remix iso files-Not official
- These are presented to give testers advanced access to SoaS
- The current live Soas builds do not start as listed on the f18 PreRelease page
- Built with livecd-tools and customized kickstart files: Build you own Remix with Fedora
- These are unofficial CD/DVD .iso files for testing
i386:
- x86_64:
- USE liveinst command in sugar root terminal ("su") to install to VirtualBox; HD; or 8 GB USB
Kickstart files
- Customized kickstart files used to Build these .iso files
Install from Soas live CD/dd USB
- In terminal application:
su liveinst
Install Sugar 97.8
- Terminal:
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop yum install sugar-emulator
- Start Sugar from Education/Sugar
Sugar
Build fedora 18 release 18 (Spherical Cow) sugar 0.97.8 firmware V1.05
Sugar-Activities
abacus 39 browse 142 calculate 41 chat 77 clock 10 countries 33 dimensions 45 etoys 116 finance 8 get books 11 help 15 image viewer 53 infoslicer 15 irc 10 jukebox 28 labryinth 14 log 29 maze 21 memorize 43 moon 14 paint 43 physics 10 pippy 48 portfolio 26 read 104 record 96 ruler 19 speak 42 terminal 39 turtle art 160 typing turtle 30 write 79
- Jabber.sugarlabs.org does not see any avitars in f1 Neighbourhood view
More information
- Fedora 18 Feature List
- Fedora 18 Preliminary Notes:
- NewInstallerUI, Anaconda Rework for Fedora 18, Secure Boot, Draft version info
Customize with kickstart files
- f18 anaconda will now promote a kickstart file for customization
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_3._Package_Selection
- Anaconda Boot Options: http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html
sample /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
- After an install of f18 look for this file.
- Put it in a USB stick and anaconda will use it to repeat install.
- This file can be modified and still will work
- sample .ks for f18 Live desktop install
- Autogenerated by anaconda
- Can be used for multiple automatic installs
#version=DEVEL # System authorization information auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 # Network information network --bootproto=dhcp --hostname=localhost.localdomain # Run the Setup Agent on first boot firstboot --enable ignoredisk --only-use=sda # Keyboard layouts keyboard 'us'# System language lang en.UTF-8 # Installation logging level logging --level=info # Root password rootpw --iscrypted $6$f/DeD7AZFW91051J$Av3OQOPsY8syofC6ysN63psWjHzH.Pdr7D/s3CTfNuYLm1jLlJ.ZyUzICMjBlXz4i88wm9MfNALVsBXXx1Kl3. # System services services --enabled="chronyd" # System timezone timezone America/Los_Angeles # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda autopart --type=plain # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda %packages authconfig chrony e2fsprogs grub2 system-config-firewall-base %end
MATE-Desktop
- NEW Now available in Fedora in netinstall only- DVD does not install working mate.--Satellit 13:32, 25 November 2012 (EST)
- Nice Gnome2 alternate desktop
- Originally developed for Linux Mint
- (#mate and #fedora-mate on freenode IRC )
- Fedora Download: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-RC1/
F18 TC6 netinstall
- chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop
- Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:
- root terminal
yum install @mate-desktop yum install @cinnamon
- Or:
yum groupinstall mate-desktop
Sugar in Cinnamon
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop yum install sugar-emulator
Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18
- reported to work
- test Digest, Vol 105, Issue 120 Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:09:51 -0500 (EST)
I have used the advice of this link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F As I can see so far it worked ok (Fedora 17 -> Fedora 18 Beta)
- Very Early to try this- It will most likly fail
fedup
Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems
Fedora OLPC
The Fedora OLPC SIG, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might later be installed using yum install sugar-*
- Here's a video of the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmrtlyyCFo
- Chris Ball suggests: as root, run:
yum -y groupinstall "Sugar Desktop Environment"
- Chris Ball suggests: as root, run:
The command to run Sugar is as root, otherwise you may get this behavior.
Launch sugar from a terminal or console session: sugar-emulator
Mailing list
Download Mirrors and Spins
- Currently building Spins: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
- 10 days of old spin builds: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
Koji
- Current http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
- Nightly Compose http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
Rawhide Testing
Common Bugs
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common
For reference, you can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:
- CommonBugs? (bugs with CommonBugs keyword, but do not yet have a link to the above page)
- CommonBugs+ (bugs with CommonBugs keyword and contain a link to the above page)